"There's no point in making a film out……" — Neil Jordan
"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
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35 Quotes by Neil Jordan
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- The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid…
- The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have…
- For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what…
- I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film…
- And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
- I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.
- Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when…
- I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in…
- But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can…
- I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
- For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
- I do enjoy working with writers.
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